The UW Systems and Networks seminar invites key researchers from academia and industry to cover a range of topics spanning networking, operating systems, distributed systems, mobile and wireless systems.
Our seminars are held on Wednesdays at 1:30pm in CSE305 unless specified otherwise.
When possible we will provide a video recording and slides of the talks.
2018-2019
| Date | Speaker | Title | Slides | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Oct | Deepak Bansal Microsoft dbansal@microsoft.com |
Container networking – challenges, landscape (CNI/CNCF, Istio etc) and Microsoft’s solution for container networking | – | – |
| 24 Oct | Sambhrama Mundkur Microsoft sammun@microsoft.com |
Accelerated Networking in Azure | – | – |
| 31 Oct | Malte Schwarzkopf MIT malte@csail.mit.edu |
Noria: dynamic, partially-stateful data-flow for high-performance web applications |
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| 7 Nov | Weidong Cui Microsoft Research weidong.cui@microsoft.com Gates Commons – 691 |
Triaging and Debugging Failures in Deployed Software by Reverse Execution | – | – |
| 14 Nov | Dan Berger Carnegie Mellon dsberger@cmu.edu |
RobinHood: Tail Latency-Aware Caching in Large Web Services | – | – |
| 28 Nov | Dave Maltz Microsoft Research dmaltz@microsoft.com |
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| 5 Dec | Jitu Padhye Microsoft Research padhye@microsoft.com |
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2017-2018
| Date | Speaker | Title | Slides | Video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Jan | Pengyu Zhang Stanford pyzhang@cs.stanford.edu |
Enabling low-power communication for IoT devices | Slides | Video |
| 07 Feb | Andrew Baumann Microsoft Research baumann@microsoft.com |
Komodo: Using verification to disentangle secure-enclave hardware from software | Slides | Video |
| 14 Feb | Anirudh Sivaraman NYU anirudh@cs.nyu.edu |
Designing fast and programmable routers | Slides | Video |
| 21 Feb | Chuanxiong Guo Bytedance guochuangxiong@bytedance.com |
RDMA in data centers: from cloud computing to machine learning | Slides | Video |
| 28 Feb | Chuanxiong Guo Bytedance guochuangxiong@bytedance.com |
Toward highly-available cloud systems | Slides | – |
| 07 Mar | Amar Phanishayee Microsoft Research amar@microsoft.com |
Project Fiddle: Fast and Efficient Infrastructure for Distributed Deep Learning | Slides | – |
| 28 Mar | Lili Qiu UT Austin lili@cs.utexas.edu |
Motion tracking and its application | – | – |
| 04 Apr | Jon Howell jonh@jonh.net |
Slicer: Auto-Sharding for Datacenter Applications | Slides | – |
| 11 Apr | Vijay Chidambaram UT Austin vijay@cs.utexas.edu |
PebblesDB: Building Key-Value Stores using Fragmented Log-Structured Merge Trees | – | – |
| 12 Apr | Mothy Roscoe ETH Zürich troscoe@inf.ethz.ch |
Enzian: Research Computer | – | – |
| 12 Apr | Ihsan Ayyub Qazi Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) ihsan.qazi@lums.edu.pk |
Understanding Internet Access in the Developing World | – | – |
| 13 Apr | Keith Winstein Stanford keithw@stanford.edu |
Tiny functions for codecs, compilation, and (maybe) soon everything | – | – |
| 9 May | Tom Bergan, Michael Buettner, Ben Greenstein tombergan@google.com buettner@google.com bengr@google.edu |
Delivering a performant mobile web to the next billion users | – | – |
| 16 May | Luis Irun-Briz Microsoft luibriz@microsoft.com |
The Distance to Flaws | Slides | – |
| 23 May | Simon Peter UT Austin simon@cs.utexas.edu |
Cross Media File Storage with Strata | – | – |
| 30 May | Nirupam Roy UIUC nroy8@illinois.edu |
Internet of Acoustic Things (IoAT): Challenges, Opportunities, and Threats | – | – |
| 13 June | Marco Canini KAUST marco@kaust.edu.sa |
Taming the Cloud Tail Latency Monster | – | – |
| 14 June | Riku Jäntti Aalto University riku.jantti@aalto.fi |
Quantum Backscatter Communications | – | – |